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In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach won a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Incredibly, instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, Efraim Diveroli, David Packouz, and Alex Podrizkithe dudesbought cheap Communist-style surplus ammunition from Balkan gunrunners. The dudes then secretly repackaged millions of rounds of shoddy Chinese ammunition and shipped it to Kabuluntil they were caught by Pentagon investigators and the scandal turned up on the front page of TheNew York Times.
Thats the official story. The truth is far more explosive. For the first time, journalist Guy Lawson tells the thrilling true tale. Its a trip that goes from a dive apartment in Miami Beach to mountain caves in Albania, the corridors of power in Washington, and the frontlines of Iraq and Afghanistan. Lawsons account includes a shady Swiss gunrunner, Russian arms dealers, corrupt Albanian gangsters, and a Pentagon investigation that impeded Americas war efforts in Afghanistan. Lawson exposes the mysterious and murky world of global arms dealing, showing how the American military came to use private contractors like Diveroli, Packouz, and Podrizki as middlemen to secure weapons from illegal arms dealersthe same men who sell guns to dictators, warlords, and drug traffickers.
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ALSO BY GUY LAWSON
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The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia (with William Oldham)
HOW THREE STONERS
FROM MIAMI BEACH
BECAME THE MOST UNLIKELY
GUNRUNNERS IN HISTORY
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For my mother, Mary
Of arms and the man I sing.
Virgil, The Aeneid
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GUY LAWSON is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning investigative journalist whose articles on war, crime, culture, and law have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Harpers , and many other publications. His Rolling Stone article on this story was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. He lives in New York with his wife and two daughters.
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Comrades in arms: David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli at the American Gun Range, Miami, 2006.
Packouz at the Eurosatory arms show, Paris, playing war, 2006.
Diveroli at Eurosatory, Paris, 2006.
When Alex Podrizki arrived in Albania in April of 2007, he discovered much of the ammunition had been manufactured in China decades earlier.
Despite its age, the ammunition was in surprisingly good condition.
To disguise the Chinese origin of the ammo, the rounds were taken from their original packaging.
The ammo was put into lightweight cardboard boxes and palletized to be shipped from Albania to Afghanistan.
The Albanian arms company MEICO was run by an official named Ylli Pinari. Credit: Gent Shkullaku
The Albanian minister of defense Fatmir Mediu. Credit: Gent Shkullaku
A businessman named Mihail Delijorgji apparently outranked the defense minister on the pricing of the ammo. Credit: Gent Shkullaku
Also involved, the dudes discovered, was the prime ministers son, Shkelzen Berisha. Credit: Gent Shkullaku
The repacking was being done by an Albanian businessman named Kosta Trebicka.
Until Trebicka was kicked off the deal and went to the New York Times and federal prosecutors in America with claims of corruption involving powerful Albaniansand was soon found dead. Credit: Gent Shkullaku
Because of a lack of safety precautions in a deal run by the same politicians selling ammo to AEY, an ammunition dump in the Albanian village of Grdec exploded, killing twenty-six civilians. Credit: Gent Shkullaku
On March 27, 2008, a front-page story in the New York Times appeared with a photograph of ammo AEY shipped to Afghanistanthough the rounds pictured werent Chinese and they werent from Albania.
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